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Gold: $3,385.23
Silver: $36.33
Platinum: $1,248.56
Palladium: $1,028.77
G/S: 93.18
Pt/G: 0.37
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  • The Midwest Summer Sale 2025    View Lots
  • 7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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  • Lot #777 - Collection of Walking Liberty half dollars in a complete Dansco 7160 album
  • Half Dollars-Walking Liberty
  • Cris Lindy-Ping Collection. The Walking Liberty half-dollar series is among the most popularly collected and difficult to complete collections within United States numismatics. This only becomes ever more difficult when attempting to fill it out with collector grade issues. Time and effort were clearly put into the building of this particular Dansco album collection that is complete from 1916 through 1947. Included in this set are the following examples: a 1916 (AU++), a 1916-D (XF+), a 1916-S (XF), a 1917 (AU+), a 1917-D Obverse (XF+), a 1917-D Reverse (XF, cleaned), a 1917-S Reverse (AU, cleaned), a 1918 (XF+), a 1918-D (XF++), a 1918-S (AU, light clean), a 1919 (VF), a 1919-D (XF, light clean), a 1919-S (XF++), a 1920 (XF), a 1920-D (AU+), a 1920-S (AU), a 1921 (AG), a 1921-D (F), a 1921-S (VG), a 1923-S (XF), a 1927-S (XF, light clean), a 1928-S (XF+), a 1929-D (XF+), a 1929-S (AU+), a 1933-S (AU), a 1934 (AU), a 1934-D (AU++), a 1935 (BU), a 1936-D (BU), a 1937 (AU++), and a 1938-D (XF, cleaned). Most of the remaining issues from 1939 through 1947 are either Almost Uncirculated or Choice Uncirculated and are certainly par for the course (ck).
 

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  • The Collectors' Auction    View Lots
  • 11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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  • Lot #278 - Atocha Gold Bar, 790 grams
  • Hammer: $68,500
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  • Treasures that descended to the bottom of the ocean near Key West in 1622 on the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha included numerous coins, but also precious metal stock being taken to Spain for further processing. Gold and silver bars featured stamps symbolic of the King of Spain -- PHILIPPVS III and fineness stamped in Roman numerals -- XXI, or 21-karat gold fineness in this instance. Foundry/assayer SARGOSA PECARTA has been strongly stamped near the narrower end.

    In the interest of efficiency, these bars were more or less shaped as elongated rectangles but their dimensions cannot be easily described with precision. For comparative purposes, we measure this example at approximately 8-1/8 inches in length, an inch in width and perhaps a quarter inch in thickness. As required for a recovery item like this, encrustation has been professionally conserved from the surface, yielding handsome bright yellow hue with some encrustation remaining. In addition to contemporary markings, the cataloger calls out a modern inscription near one end: "A 85 45(?)", the final figure being indistinct. The bar weighs 790 grams (27.87 oz.), per Scotsman measurements.

    This gold bar obviously represents much more than a mere "souvenir" from the Atocha, given its high intrinsic value, and will be accompanied by the original photo certificate issued by the Fisher Salvage Company in 1985.

 

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